Initially, it was planned that the processors Bristol Ridge in the performance of Socket AM4 will appear on the market earlier than the more progressive media of the Zen architecture of Ryzen family, and this will allow owners of appropriate motherboards to "wait out difficult times." However, in reality hybrid Bristol Ridge processors began to be retailed as a stand-alone product already after Ryzen appeared on sale, and now they are of some interest for those who are ready to assemble
the system with the Socket AM4 connector in stages.

It can be recalled that among the Bristol Ridge processors in the Socket AM4 version there are also economical versions with a TDP level of not more than 35 W - they are easily recognized by the letter "E" at the end of the model designation. A couple of such processors have recently been seen in Japanese retail by colleagues from the site AKIBA PC Hotline - it is in a boxed version.

Processors A12-9800E and A10-9700E have more modest frequencies: 3.1 / 3.8 GHz and 3.0 / 3.5 GHz, respectively. Moreover, they have lower graphics core frequencies - 900 and 847 MHz, respectively. Specific Japanese specimens were issued at the end of May this year. We should not forget that the processing cores of these processors are content with the mature architecture of Excavator, and with the Ryzen processors they are related only to the overall design and support for DDR4
memory.

RETAIL BOXED VERSIONS OF ECONOMICAL PROCESSORS BRISTOL RIDGE

POSTER: computer news || THE MENTION OF COFFEE LAKE ON THE INTEL SITE INDICATES THE PROXIMITY OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE:2017-09-03

As for the timing of Intel Coffee Lake processors announcement for desktop systems, there is a lot of conflicting information, but many sources agree that they will be submitted before the end of the year. Intel itself has publicly promised to present them in the autumn of this year, and this formulation leaves the opportunity to do so in September and in October. German colleagues were lucky enough to find mention of desktop processors Coffee Lake in the database on the Intel site.

These processors belong to the "eight thousandth series", although it will just cunningly combine both updated Kaby Lake, and 14-nm Coffee Lake, and even 10-nm processors Cannon Lake. The latter, however, in the foreseeable future will be limited only to the mobile segment.

As the website ComputerBase explains, which as a "receiving party" tortured participants of IFA 2017 with a special predilection, motherboards based on the set of logic Intel Z370 will appear only in early October. Accordingly, we can expect that the desktop processors Coffee Lake will appear in a comparable time.

THE MENTION OF COFFEE LAKE ON THE INTEL SITE INDICATES THE PROXIMITY OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT

Acer on the "zero" day of the exhibition IFA 2017 held a presentation of its new products, including the latest desktop game computer Predator Orion 9000, which, according to the developers, is "the most powerful PC company ever created."

At the stand, the company presented a version of Predator Orion 9000 with a pair of video cards AMD Radeon RX Vega 64, but the PC version will be available on the market with both three and four graphics accelerators. A version with a pair of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will also be available. And of course, the basic modifications can only boast of single video cards.

At the heart of older versions of Predator Orion 9000, including the one captured on the stand, is the Intel Core i9-7920XE processor, which has 18 cores and 36 streams, and operates at frequencies of 2.6-4.2 GHz. The processor adds up to 128 GB of four-channel DDR4 memory.

In the company of Predator Orion 9000, Acer introduced a new game monitor Predator X35, a diagonal of 35 inches and a resolution of 3440 x 1440 pixels, built, one hundred importantly, on the panel type VA. This monitor has a high sweep rate of 200 Hz, and also supports NVIDIA G-Sync technology. Note also the response time of 4 ms, support for HDR and 90% coverage of DCI-P3 color space.

AquaComputer has expanded its range with a new water-block with a full cover designed to cool video cards based on Vega 10 GPUs. The novelty is called simply and clearly - Kryographics VEGA , and it is intended for installation on Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 reference video cards, as well as on Video card series Frontier Edition, which are made on the same printed circuit boards.

The base of the water block Kryographics VEGA is made of a massive bar of copper and in some places reaches a thickness of 10 mm. In addition to the Vega 10 graphics processor and the nearby HBM2 memory, the base is in contact with the power system elements, as is the case with a full-coverage waterblock. The water block will be available in versions with a base of "bare" copper, and with a nickel-plated base.

The upper part of the casing is made of transparent acrylic and is equipped with a backlight. Note that a metal cover is also attached to the water block, covering that part of the printed circuit board that is almost completely unoccupied, which gives the cooler Kryographics VEGA a finished look. Also, the manufacturer notes that the terminal for connecting fittings can be replaced with another one of the Kryoconnect line.

Water block AquaComputer Kryographics VEGA has already appeared on sale in the official online store of the German manufacturer for the recommended price of 110 euros.